"unclear whether she was referring to ""The New Yorker"" where she worked or Manhattan where she socialized. ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"" is a 1985 novel by Jeanette Winterson which she subsequently adapted into a BBC television drama. It is about a lesbian girl who grows up in an extremely religious community. The main character is a young girl named Jeanette (Jess in the TV serial) who is adopted by evangelists, who believe she is destined to become a missionary. However, Jeanette finds herself subject to desires and feelings that contrast with the beliefs of the evangelical church. Because"
"Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson, (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. She is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, which focuses on LGBT issues. Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960. She grew up in Accrington, Lancashire, and"
"2002, Winterson was involved with BBC radio broadcaster and academic Peggy Reynolds. After their relationship ended, Winterson became involved with theatre director Deborah Warner. In 2015, she married psychotherapist Susie Orbach, author of ""Fat is a Feminist Issue"". Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson, (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. She"
"""Marmalade Atkins in Space"" (a one-off drama shown in 1981), and then in two series, ""Educating Marmalade"" (1982–83) and ""Danger: Marmalade at Work"" (1984). All three were made by Thames and written by Andrew Davies. In 1990, Coleman appeared as Jess, a girl from Lancashire brought up by a strict Pentecostal mother, in the acclaimed BBC television drama ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", based on Jeanette Winterson's novel of the same name. Coleman won a Royal Television Society, Best Actress award and was nominated for a BAFTA for her portrayal of the young lesbian character. She also read the"
"in an episode of the BBC sitcom ""Lead Balloon"". Cathryn Bradshaw Cathryn Bradshaw (born 13 January 1964, Blackpool) is an English actress, perhaps best known for her role in ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"". Cathryn Bradshaw was born in Blackpool in 1964 and brought up in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire where she attended Breck School. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, alongside Louise Plowright and Mark Strong, and graduated in 1987. She married actor Mark Strong in Lancashire in 1989, but the marriage ended in divorce after only a few years. Bradshaw's first television role came"
"Cathryn Bradshaw Cathryn Bradshaw (born 13 January 1964, Blackpool) is an English actress, perhaps best known for her role in ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"". Cathryn Bradshaw was born in Blackpool in 1964 and brought up in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire where she attended Breck School. She trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, alongside Louise Plowright and Mark Strong, and graduated in 1987. She married actor Mark Strong in Lancashire in 1989, but the marriage ended in divorce after only a few years. Bradshaw's first television role came in 1988 when she played the Princess in an"
"Morrow under the title ""Ask Me No Questions"". ""To Sea in a Sieve"" (1937) is about a rebellious young woman who gets involved in radical movements and is torn between two men. ""Company in the Evening"" (1944) is about a young mother who works in a literary agency. ""Have Your Cake"" (1942) and ""Portrait of Adrian"" (1945) round out the six. Ursula Orange Ursula Orange (1909–1955) was a mid 20th century British novelist who is known for focusing her books on the domestic lives and career aspirations of young women. Little has been written about Ursula Orange's life. She was"
"Children's Commissioner's Growing Up Digital report, and sits on the Royal Foundation Taskforce on cyber bullying. She is also a member of the UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, a UN commission set up to support the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Beeban Kidron Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron (born 2 May 1961) is an English film director, producer, children's rights campaigner and member of the UK House of Lords. As a director she is best known for directing an adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"" and """". Baroness Kidron is the joint founder of"
"Beeban Kidron Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron (born 2 May 1961) is an English film director, producer, children's rights campaigner and member of the UK House of Lords. As a director she is best known for directing an adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"" and """". Baroness Kidron is the joint founder of the education charity Filmclub (now Into Film), which uses film to educate children in after-school clubs in the United Kingdom. Kidron was born in North London, to Nina and Michael Kidron. Michael's family were South African Jews who immigrated to Israel."
"Herbs and Apples Herbs and Apples is a 1925 novel by Helen Hooven Santmyer. Her first novel, it was largely autobiographical. Set in the fictional town of Tecumseh, Ohio, an unnamed Boston-area women's college, and Manhattan, it tells the story of Derrick Thornton, an aspiring female writer and poet, who ends up preferring the ""herbs and apples"" of Tecumseh to any sort of literary life. The novel received a minor reception at the time, but otherwise made no impact. It was rediscovered when Santmyer became a literary sensation in 1984, and reissued in hardcover (Harper & Row, 1985) and paperback"
"Five Quarters of the Orange Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel by Joanne Harris first published by Doubleday in 2001. ""Five Quarters of the Orange"" has two time lines which alternate throughout the novel. One begins during Framboise Dartigen's childhood during the German Occupation. Framboise remembers her difficult relationship with her mother and two siblings as well as her dangerous friendship with a young German officer. The other is in present-day France, now following the life of the widowed Framboise Simon, having returned to the village of her childhood from which her family was expelled during the Second"
"Sight"" and ""Oranges are Not the Only Fruit"". Lindsay Mackie is a former journalist and is heavily involved in literacy programmes for UK schools. She is a specialist in setting up extra curricular programmes in schools. She is known for setting up the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Award for Young People in 2000 schools within four years. Also, she spearheaded 300 reading clubs with Education Extra and is a co-founder of Filmclub. Proprietor of his own management recruitment company for twenty-five years, Harris is now the non-executive director of several media companies. He is also the treasurer at Filmclub,"
"of the unconscious. Her works including ""Under the Net"" (1954), ""The Black Prince"" (1973) and ""The Green Knight"" (1993). Scottish writer Muriel Spark's also began publishing in the 1950s. She pushed the boundaries of realism in her novels. Her first, ""The Comforters"" (1957), concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel; ""The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"" (1961), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future to see the various fates that befall its characters. Anthony Burgess is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" (1962), set in the not-too-distant"
"episode of ""The Storyteller"". The following year she appeared in an episode of ""Inspector Morse"" and also in the 1989 comedy musical film, ""Bert Rigby, You're a Fool"" alongside Robert Lindsay and Robbie Coltrane. Then in 1990 she played Melanie in the acclaimed BBC television drama ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"" opposite Charlotte Coleman. She also appeared in four episodes of the ITV crime drama ""Chancer"". She made a number of television appearances throughout the 1990s. In 1996, Bradshaw appeared at the National Theatre in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"", and from 1997 to 1999"
"Appelsinpiken The Orange Girl () is a 2003 novel by Jostein Gaarder, the Norwegian author of the best-selling ""Sophie's World"". The novel was adapted into a film in 2009. The original Norwegian title, ""appelsin"", refers specifically to the fruit and not the colour. Georg Røed's father Jan Olav died when he was four years old. Eleven years later, Georg's grandmother finds letters addressed to Georg from Jan Olav, written before his death, along with a story titled ""The Orange Girl."" As Georg soon discovers, ""The Orange Girl"" is not simply a story, but a riddle from the past that centres"
"backdrop was made up of “rainbow-coloured rabbits, giraffes and a particularly anxious ladybird”, all reminiscent of the 1970s child’s toy. In Jeanette Winterson's novel ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", the protagonist Jeanette uses Fuzzy-Felt to depict Bible scenes, one of which is a rewrite of Daniel in the lions' den. She depicts Daniel as getting eaten by the lions, and when confronted by the pastor tries to disguise this by saying that she 'wanted to do Jonah and the whale, but they don't do whales in Fuzzy-Felt'. The pastor then tells Jeanette that they should do the Astonishment at"
"went out the back way. Like Santmyer's first novel, ""Herbs and Apples"", the novel received a minor reception at the time, but otherwise made no impact. It too was rediscovered when Santmyer became a literary sensation in 1984, and reissued in hardcover (St. Martin's Press, 1987) and paperback (St. Martin's Press, 1988) with an introduction by Weldon Kefauver (Santmyer's editor at Ohio State University Press), three poems by Santmyer, and a biographical postscript. A 1999 paperback re-issue (OSU Press) had a foreword by Cecilia Tichi (of Vanderbilt University) and the three poems by Santmyer. One summer, Lucy Anne learns to"
"the other novels, on a print-on-demand basis. Publisher information relates to first publication only. Many of the books have been reissued, usually by different publishers. Notes Citations Sources Stella Gibbons Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to ""Cold Comfort Farm""—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much"
"my life, and which always made me feel I belonged to both countries."" She first visited England when she was six, and settled there when she was 11. She worked in the music department of the BBC before becoming a writer. She wrote her first book, ""The Magic Orange Tree and Other Stories"", in 1979. After her first child was born, she became aware that there were few children's books reflecting their experience as multi-racial children. She has also written books reflecting her childhood in India, particularly her Surya trilogy. She is also a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival,"
"Apples (novel) Apples is the bestselling debut novel by Richard Milward, published in 2007. The novel was adapted into a play, by John Rettallack. The book is set in Middlesbrough and follows the stories of teenagers Adam and Eve as they cope with the difficulties of growing up and the complications of friendship. Eve's mother has recently been diagnosed with cancer and as a distraction Eve becomes embroiled in sexual activity and drug taking, whilst Adam tries to cope with sexual frustration, a violent father and increasingly compulsive behaviour. The novel is narrated in the first person by several characters"
"Spinsters (novel) Spinsters is the 1995 debut novel by Pagan Kennedy. It was shortlisted for the first Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996. The novel describes an American road trip by two unmarried thirty-something sisters, Frannie and Doris. Doris was popular and pretty in high school, and still keen to keep moving and meet men, while the narrator Frannie is less keen on the journey and shyer around men. Following their father's death they set out on a journey through America. The action takes place in the late 1960s, and reflects the changes American society was undergoing at the time."
"1965, Childress was featured in the BBC presentation ""The Negro in the American Theatre"". From 1966 to 1968, she was a scholar-in-residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. In conjunction with her composer husband, Nathan Woodard, she wrote a number of musical plays, including ""Young Martin Luther King"" (originally entitled ""The Freedom Drum"") in 1968 and ""Sea Island Song"" (1977). Alice Childress is also known for her young adult novels, among which are ""Those Other People"" (1989) and ""A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich"" (1973). She adapted the latter as a screenplay for the 1978 feature"
"marriage. June Arnold moved her children to Greenwich Village, where she pursued her writing career and continued raising her four children outside the confines of Houston society and the status quo. Arnold's first novel, ""Applesauce"", was published in 1966 by McGraw Hill. It explored how people's personalities change after motherhood and marriage. In 1971, June Arnold founded Daughters, Incorporated with her partner Parke Bowman. Daughters, Inc. published a number of books, many focusing on gender and lesbian experiences, including Lois Gould's ""X: A Fabulous Child's Story"", Rita Mae Brown's ""Rubyfruit Jungle"", and Arnold's own novels. Arnold's second novel, ""The Cook"
"Grace Krilanovich Grace Krilanovich (born October 5, 1979) is an American author. Her first novel, ""The Orange Eats Creeps"" was published by Two Dollar Radio in September 2010. It was selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year (2010) in the category of Science Fiction & Fantasy and was named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by Shelf Unbound. In October 2010, she was selected as a National Book Foundation 2010 ""5 Under 35"" Honoree, selected by Scott Spencer, Fiction Finalist for ""A Ship Made of Paper"", 2003; Fiction Finalist for ""Endless Love"", 1980 and 1981. Grace Krilanovich"
"Stella Gibbons Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902 – 19 December 1989) was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, ""Cold Comfort Farm"" (1932) which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary works—which included a sequel to ""Cold Comfort Farm""—achieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century. The daughter of a London doctor, Gibbons had a turbulent and often"
"Carl Muller Carl Muller (born 22 October 1935) is a Sri Lankan writer, poet and journalist best known for his trilogy about Burghers in Sri Lanka: ""The Jam Fruit Tree"", ""Yakada Yaka"" and ""Once Upon A Tender Time"". He has won Gratiaen Awards for ""The Jam Fruit Tree"" in 1993 and a State Literary Award for his historical novel, ""Children of the Lion"". Muller was born in Kandy, the eldest in a family of thirteen. Dismissed from three schools, Muller was finally educated at Prestigious Royal College, Colombo. he left home at the age of eighteen to join the Royal"
"Little, Brown and Company in Boston in 1947. His short stories were published in the Manila Times Magazine in the 1950s, among which are ""Two Tickets to Manila"", ""The Sin of Father Anselmo"", ""Sleeping Tablets"", ""The Fifth Man"", ""The Tree of Peace"" and ""Transition"". ""Without Seeing the Dawn"", also known as ""The Lost Ones"", is his only novel. The novel is also a requirement for the Grade 7 students of the University of the Philippines Rural High School. Stevan Javellana Stevan Javellana (1918–1977) was a Filipino novelist and short-story writer in the English language. He is also known as Esteban"
"Charlotte Coleman Charlotte Ninon Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", Jess in the television drama ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", and her childhood roles of Sue in ""Worzel Gummidge"" and the character Marmalade Atkins. Coleman died of an acute asthma attack in Holloway, North London, aged 33. Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and Canadian-born television producer Francis Coleman. Her younger sister is the actress Lisa Coleman. She was educated at Camden School for"
"Charlotte Coleman Charlotte Ninon Coleman (3 April 1968 – 14 November 2001) was an English actress best known for playing Scarlett in the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"", Jess in the television drama ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", and her childhood roles of Sue in ""Worzel Gummidge"" and the character Marmalade Atkins. Coleman died of an acute asthma attack in Holloway, North London, aged 33. Coleman was the first of two daughters born to actress Ann Beach and Canadian-born television producer Francis Coleman. Her younger sister is the actress Lisa Coleman. She was educated at Camden School for"
"a time the assistant secretary for the British Poetry Society. According to her daughter, who wrote about her in the autobiographical 2009 book ""Footprints in Paris"", her death in 1955 at the age of 46 was by suicide. Orange wrote a total of six novels, which have been called ""unjustly forgotten"". She wrote in a lightly comic vein that concealed serious intentions, and her style has been referred to as ""the Angela Thirkell school at its best."" Her protagonists tended to be young women of middle-class upbringing who were grappling with the challenges of jobs, children, and romantic entanglements. For"
"won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1990 television serial ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", and from 2004 to 2009, she starred as the Agatha Christie sleuth Miss Marple, in the ITV series ""Marple"". She was born Geraldine McKeown on 9 May 1932 in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England, to Donald and Norah (née Burns) McKeown. She had Irish ancestors; her maternal grandfather came from Kilkenny while her paternal grandfather came from Belfast. Her father, a printers' compositor, ran the Labour Party branch in Old Windsor, a safe Conservative seat. McEwan won a scholarship to attend Windsor"
"Rombes, produced by Two Dollar Radio Moving Pictures, for release in 2015. The Orange Eats Creeps is being developed into a feature film. Grace Krilanovich Grace Krilanovich (born October 5, 1979) is an American author. Her first novel, ""The Orange Eats Creeps"" was published by Two Dollar Radio in September 2010. It was selected as one of Amazon's Best Books of the Year (2010) in the category of Science Fiction & Fantasy and was named a Top 10 Book of 2010 by Shelf Unbound. In October 2010, she was selected as a National Book Foundation 2010 ""5 Under 35"" Honoree,"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"